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Many Jews have stereotypical views of Evangelicals. These stereotypes may persist, but they lack validity. If we are to build meaningful and enriching bridges--bridges that enhance our faiths and ourselves--we need to address and overcome our lingering fears.

What Pope Francis is asking the church to do is to go back to its roots. It's a throwback to the early church. A church that that was radically different than the empire that surrounded it, which insisted that a person's worth wasn't bestowed by society but was inherited by simply being alive.

In 2014, the Boy Scouts of America finally began to allow openly gay youths into its organization. As of today, no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone. It was a great victory indeed.

One of the many prejudices I have encountered in talking about my Mormonism with those outside of the church is the idea that Mormon women are oppressed and have no will or power of their own within the church.

Recently, I came across a young Ezdi, Nasser H. Kassow from Shingal (Sinjar) who is a student of English at a University in Zakho. Kassow had tweeted some of his impressionistic paintings on the state of Yazidis. As we engaged on social media, I interviewed him via Skype to know a little more about his work.

The 85-year-old Grand Ayatollah did not talk to me as if I'm Sunni or Shia, Muslim or non-Muslim but just as a human being. I left his reception fully confident that Iraq is currently in safe hands so long as it continues to have wise men like him. However, what will happen after Sistani departs a fragile Iraq?

I noticed with interest and, quite frankly, surprise an article headline on the front page of The New York Times dated Tuesday, June 9, 2015, which stated: "Evangelicals Open Door to Debate on Gay Rights."

About Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as found in the books of the New Testament. Followers of Christianity, Christians, believe that Jesus was the son of God, and that he offered salvation to humanity through his death by crucifixion and subsequent resurrection in the first century C.E.
Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the books of the Hebrew Bible, incorporated into Christian scripture as the "Old Testament." The Old and New Testaments together are referred to collectively as the Christian Bible.
A series of historical schisms created the many divisions in Christianity today, including the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church and the many Protestant denominations.
Based on global population, Christianity is the largest religion in the world, with upwards of 2.2 billion adherents.